"girlo" meaning in Italian

See girlo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈd͡ʒir.lo/ Forms: girli [plural]
Rhymes: -irlo Etymology: Probably from Vulgar Latin *gȳrulus, diminutive of gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”). Etymology templates: {{inh|it|VL.|*gȳrulus}} Vulgar Latin *gȳrulus Head templates: {{it-noun|m}} girlo m (plural girli)
  1. a dice with a tapering point that can be made to spin on its axis with the fingers Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-girlo-it-noun-7skdmC29
  2. (Tuscany) Synonym of mochi (“bitter vetch”) Tags: Tuscany, masculine Synonyms: mochi [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-girlo-it-noun-OwxWeduU Categories (other): Tuscan Italian, Italian entries with incorrect language header, Legumes Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Disambiguation of Legumes: 17 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: giro, zurlo
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "VL.",
        "3": "*gȳrulus"
      },
      "expansion": "Vulgar Latin *gȳrulus",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Vulgar Latin *gȳrulus, diminutive of gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "girli",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "girlo m (plural girli)",
      "name": "it-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "gìr‧lo"
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "giro"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "zurlo"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a dice with a tapering point that can be made to spin on its axis with the fingers"
      ],
      "id": "en-girlo-it-noun-7skdmC29",
      "links": [
        [
          "dice",
          "dice"
        ],
        [
          "tapering",
          "tapering"
        ],
        [
          "point",
          "point"
        ],
        [
          "spin",
          "spin"
        ],
        [
          "axis",
          "axis"
        ],
        [
          "finger",
          "finger"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tuscan Italian",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 83",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "it",
          "name": "Legumes",
          "orig": "it:Legumes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of mochi (“bitter vetch”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-girlo-it-noun-OwxWeduU",
      "links": [
        [
          "mochi",
          "mochi#Italian"
        ],
        [
          "bitter vetch",
          "bitter vetch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Tuscany) Synonym of mochi (“bitter vetch”)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "bitter vetch",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "mochi"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Tuscany",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒir.lo/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-irlo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "girlo"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Italian 2-syllable words",
    "Italian countable nouns",
    "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Italian lemmas",
    "Italian masculine nouns",
    "Italian nouns",
    "Italian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
    "Italian terms derived from Vulgar Latin",
    "Italian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin",
    "Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:Italian/irlo",
    "Rhymes:Italian/irlo/2 syllables",
    "it:Legumes"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "VL.",
        "3": "*gȳrulus"
      },
      "expansion": "Vulgar Latin *gȳrulus",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Vulgar Latin *gȳrulus, diminutive of gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "girli",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "girlo m (plural girli)",
      "name": "it-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "gìr‧lo"
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "giro"
    },
    {
      "word": "zurlo"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a dice with a tapering point that can be made to spin on its axis with the fingers"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dice",
          "dice"
        ],
        [
          "tapering",
          "tapering"
        ],
        [
          "point",
          "point"
        ],
        [
          "spin",
          "spin"
        ],
        [
          "axis",
          "axis"
        ],
        [
          "finger",
          "finger"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Tuscan Italian"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of mochi (“bitter vetch”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mochi",
          "mochi#Italian"
        ],
        [
          "bitter vetch",
          "bitter vetch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Tuscany) Synonym of mochi (“bitter vetch”)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "bitter vetch",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "mochi"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Tuscany",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒir.lo/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-irlo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "girlo"
}

Download raw JSONL data for girlo meaning in Italian (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Italian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-20 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.